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Credits
Recoll borrows (steals?) heavily from the following projects. I tried to
include the relevant copyright attributions with the code. Any omission is
unintentional and will be fixed as soon as notified.
* Xapian: The database module (core) is used unmodified, and quite a lot
of code has been borrowed from Omega, the web-based search application
(ie: the html parser, plus miscellaneous bits and ideas).
* Estraier: Miscellaneous pieces of code and ideas, especially for
charset handling, and code from external filters.
* Unac: for accent removal. This is a relatively small package, not that
easy to find, it has been integrated almost unmodified in the Recoll
package.
* Iconv, for character set conversion.
* Binc IMAP for MIME parsing code.
* I fear the rest of the bugs to be mostly mine:
jean-francois.dockes@wanadoo.fr
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Using Recoll
Indexation
By default, Recoll will index your home directory. If you want to change
this, you need to edit the configuration file ($HOME/.recoll/recoll.conf).
Follow the comments in the file to adjust the parameters.
Indexing is performed either by starting the recollindex program, or by
the indexing thread inside the recoll program (use the File menu).
Simple search
Enter search term(s) in the text field at the top left. Clicking the
Search button or hitting the Enter key will start a search. By default,
this will look for documents with any of the terms (the ones with more
terms will get better scores). Use the Advanced search dialog for other
kinds of searches
A list of results will be displayed in the main list window. Clicking on
an entry will open an internal preview window for the document.
Double-clicking will attempt to start an external viewer (have a look at
the ~/.recoll/mimeconf file to see how these are configured).
Search tips, shortcuts
Entering a capitalized word in any search field will prevent stem
expansion (example: Recoll will not look for gardening if you enter Garden
instead of garden).
A phrase can be looked for by enclosing it in double quotes. Example:
"user manual" will look only for occurrences of user immediately followed
by manual.
Entering ^Q almost anywhere will close the application.
Entering ^W in a preview tab will close it (and, for the last tab, close
the preview window).
Complex/advanced search
The advanced search dialog has fields that will allow a more refined
search, looking for documents with all given words, a given exact phrase,
or none of the given words (all fields may be combined by a default AND
clause).
It will let you search for documents of specific mime types (ie: only
text/plain, or text/html or application/pdf etc...)
It will let you restrict the search results to a subtree of the indexed
area.
In other respects, it works as the simple search.